What if it entails, like Janon alluded to it, these prime air assets working in tandem with the Strike Corp in an Indian rendition of blitzkrieg to truly take away Pakistan's traditional advantage i.e us being able to bring our forces forward much earlier & perhaps even enjoy a day or twos worth of numerical superiority !
While it could play a part, I doubt that stationing the primary a2g plane of IAF at the border would make a difference to the strike corps.
The jets even if placed in the interiors would cover the distance to the border in a matter of minutes. The ability to blunt Pakistan's biggest advantage of faster mobilization lies with the Indian Army primarily.
As mentioned above, the IAF will pretty soon have round the clock coverage over a substantial part of Pakistan round the clock(owing to Pakistan's small width), so surprise raids
may quite be a thing of the past in another decade. And this is not just related to AWACS.
It still does not answer our original question.
What the IAF is doing in this regard to IA's new doctrine is a build up of infrastructure.
The declared plan is to have all airbases upgraded to be able to handle all types of planes in IAF inventory along side of reducing(compared to the past) the types of fighters it operates.
Till recently IAF bases are geared exclusively towards a few types of fighters which meant only those types of planes would be able to use the airbase to its potential. This was a severe operational limitation. This is being changed now.
The second thing done to support the new leaning of the Army is opening of more ALG's, etc to be better able to transport people and equipment and having a denser network.
Along with this the third thing being done to support the Army's swift mobilization is having strategic air-lifters. A capability Indian Military lacked sorely. The Il-76's dont cut it.
The C-17's purchased will go a much
much longer way than most people imagine in reducing IA deployment schedule. And being there to cater to emergency asset requirements across all Indian borders. It would alter the logistics tail of IA quite significantly.
You can imagine how much IAF and IA needed this by the fact that 10 have already been purchased and this makes India the 2nd biggest C-17 operator worldwide!
And in all likelihood 6 more will be purchased! And this is for an
entirely new class of transport added to the IAF considering that Il's are not likely to be retired for a long time.
These 3 aspects are absolutely crucial to support the IA's new doctrine/practice/whatever different people call it.